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Narragansett Bay – November 16, 1993

February 25, 2021

Narragansett Bay – November 16, 1993

At about 9:30 a.m. on the morning of November 16, 1993, a 51-year-old man took off from Runway 34 at the Quonset State Airport in a home-built ultralight aircraft. Shortly after becoming airborne the engine failed, and the aircraft went down in Narragansett Bay about 1,000 feet off the runway. The man was rescued by a nearby boater and transported to a medical facility where he was treated and released. The wreckage was recovered and examined by state crash investigators.

Source: Providence Journal, “Pilot Survives Crash Off Quonset”, November 17, 1993, page D-5.

Tiverton, R.I. – July 4, 1994

February 19, 2021

Tiverton, Rhode Island – July 4, 1994

At 10 a.m. on July 4, 1994, a 42-year-old man took off from the Fall River Airport in a home-built ultralight aircraft and set off for a shoreline flight along Mount Hope Bay towards Rhode Island. Awhile later he turned inland over Horizon Drive in the town of Tiverton. According to a witness, the aircraft was at an altitude of about 350 feet when its engine suddenly stopped. As the plane began to drop the pilot deployed the emergency parachute but it was not enough to slow the plane enough to prevent it from crashing about twenty feet from a home on Horizon Drive. The pilot was killed instantly.

Source: Providence Journal, “Ultralight Plane Crashes In Tiverton; Pilot Killed”, July 5, 1994, page A-1

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